This startup's 'software robots' are taking the jobs of low-skilled office workers
With customers in financial services, insurance, and healthcare, Romanian startup UiPath has just secured funding to help it add more AI to its software robots.
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Windows XP still running on a third of business, public sector PCs in some Eastern European countries
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The obscure city luring Amazon and Oracle with the promise of dirt-cheap developers
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